This is the index to 9 pages of reasons to disallow removal of constitutional access guarantees on any California public tideland. Clicking the blue lead (number 1-9) brings up its total page and more documentation links.

(2). The Coastal Commission must consider the balancing section of the Coastal Act under 30007.5 when evaluating a most significant resource: human safety and public access. (Click on (2) for illustration)

(3).Without an Environmental Impact Report (EIR), foreseeable and cumulative ecological consequences have been ignored. This violates CEQA and NEPA policies.ADA access is federally required, not closure.

(5). Allowing a City to strip a public tideland of access protection in its LCP removes CCC jurisdiction with no way to get it back. This sets a new, lowered standard for beach closure for all of California.

(6).This City plan misuses Coastal Act Section 30230 as if an artificial urban beach were an ESHA. A man-made beach formed behind a protective concrete seawall is not a natural habitat and alters nature to create animal dependence on human supplied shelter.
Harbor Seals are not depleted, threatened, or endangered, or under State jurisdiction.

(8). A beach closure would reverse the 2001 Commission’s ruling against any permanent seal reserve in application 6-00-126 for a permanent seal reserve in La Jolla ontrust protected public recreational tidelands. Read it here.

(9). Our city politicians presented this latest beach closure plan as the next step in a series without revealing the obvious next steps. Seals are pupping on other public beaches in San Diego.

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San Diego has created crises by its own mismanagement and feigned incompetence to force the CCC into a corner, and the Commission was bluffed.

All we want is for the court to rule: "Go back and talk to your community advisors and local groups and stake holders and ocean users. Try alternatives. Solve your problems yourself within the confines of existing State laws. If that is truely impossible then go to the legislature. If we have an emergency then bring it to us as such with the evidence."

Despite what you may have heard, this is not a scheme to route the seals. Seal presence is protected by State and Federal law and they are not the problem. The only authorized agency allowed to protect seals has endorsed shared use on our beach. (NOAA)